Let’s Visit Vacation Island

One of the perks of being a Deluxe Member is the ability to visit Vacation Island. Vacation Island features activities, items and other perks that you can’t find anywhere else in Webkinz World.

Several years ago, Vacation Island was open to all Webkinz players. To visit, you would buy a ticket from Debbie the Dragon in the Travel Agency. Tickets cost 500 kinzcash.

Now, Vacation Island is only available to Deluxe Members and visiting is free. You can come and go from Vacation Island as often as you want, but some of the activities can only be done once per day.

All together, there are 7 places/things to do in Vacation Island

Here’s a guide to the locations on the map:

1. Coral Cove
2. Island Wheel
3. Vacation Island Spa
4. Sheldon’s Souvenir Shack
5. Treasures of the Crystal Sea
6. Don’t Rock the Boat
7. Post Office

We’ll start with #1, Coral Cove. Here’s what Coral Cove looks like on the inside:

Coral Cove is a place you can meet with other Webkinz players to chat and grab a snack at the Buffet:

According to Webkinz Insider, there are random party events that take place in Coral Cove. During the party, there are raffles where you can win prizes. I’ve never been to one of the parties because I don’t go into Coral Cove very often. Have you ever been to a Coral Cove party?

#2 Island Wheel

Sometimes referred to  as the “Vacation Wheel,” the Island Wheel is a prize wheel you can spin once per day.

The prizes on the Island Wheel are not available anywhere else in Webkinz World, including Sheldon’s Souvenir Shack. Current prizes include a hammock, Captain Dogbeard Plush, recipe foods and kinzcash. The prizes on the Island Wheel do change, but not very often.

Here’s a look at the Island Wheel in action:

#3 Vacation Island Spa

If you want to completely rejuvenate all of your pets all at once, you can visit the Spa. Their health, hunger and happiness will be fully restored…but it costs kinzcash, typically quite a bit of kinzcash. You can expect to pay thousands in kinzcash in order to have all of your pets “pampered.”

Important note: Pampering your pets does NOT award you any family score points.

#4 Sheldon’s Souvenir Shack

Sheldon’s Souvenir Shack is where you go if you want to purchase a little something to remember your trip to Vacation Island. It’s also the only place in Webkinz World where you can encounter Sheldon the Turtle, one of the Webkinz World hosts. (Sheldon can be added to your friends list.)

The items available at Sheldon’s Souvenir Shack vary widely – you’ll see everything from bathing suits to tiki lights and flip flops to furniture. The items offered change from day to day, so you may have to check back if there is a certain item you’re hoping to find. Also, you can only buy a total of 3 souvenirs per day. Once you’ve bought 3 souvenirs, Sheldon tucks into his shell and has a “siesta.”

 #5 Treasures of the Crystal Sea

Treasures of the Crystal Sea is a game that can only be accessed by visiting Vacation Island.

The game is quite simple. Your pet rides in a submarine, and you use the up/down arrows to navigate through underwater tunnels. Along the way you try to pick up white balls (called pearls) in order to increase your score:

As you navigate through the tunnels, you will encounter various sea creatures. These are not your friends – touch one of them, and you lose “health.” If you lose too much health, the game is over.

Luckily you can also collect wooden crates throughout the game. These crates contain “weapons” that can either freeze or eliminate the sea creatures, depending on what type of weapon you’ve collected.

There are 6 levels in Treasures of the Crystal Sea. I haven’t made it past Level 3 yet. It’s not really a hard game, but for some reason I’m just not very good at it. If you do manage to pass all 6 levels, you win a trophy:

Here’s a look at the game in action:

#6 Don’t Rock the Boat

Don’t Rock the Boat is a quick and interactive feature of Vacation Island. It’s a bit like rolling dice. You “rock the boat” by clicking the wooden sign inside of the wrecked ship.

You may get a prize, such a Fool’s Gold Chocolate…or a pirate ghost might appear! If the ghost appears, it “scares” your pet and takes away all their happiness.

Another prize you can win playing Don’t Rock the Boat is a map piece. Once you’ve collected all 4 map pieces, you’re awarded the Grand Prize – which consists of these three items:

#7 Post Office

If you want to send a postcard to one of your friends, then you want to visit the island’s Post Office. Here you can send a variety of postcards that aren’t available in the regular Post Office. You can select a message, post card design and stamp design.

These are the message you can choose from:

And here’s what a postcard looks like once it’s delivered:

That’s it for our trip around Vacation Island. Have you ever visited Vacation Island? Which activity is your favorite? Let me know in the comments for a Vacation Island prize via kinzpost!

And if you’re not currently a Deluxe member, you can visit the Ganz eStore to learn more about the Deluxe Membership options – buy a year long membership, and you’ll get a free Webkinz pet! Deluxe Memberships are only available through the Ganz eStore. 🙂

Update: Act fast and you can get 25% off a one year Deluxe Membership and get a cute Caracal Kitten for free! The deal only lasts until May 25th!

Wish Factory Prizes: Letters M and O

I’m back with a look at a few more of the Wish Factory prizes that were added in addition to the Exclusive Items.

It’s been a while since these prizes were added, and since I started cataloging them, so let’s talk a minute about what makes them different. Exclusive Items are items you can get two ways – you are awarded an Exclusive Item each time you adopt a pet, and you can also buy Exclusive Items with Wish Tokens.

These newer prizes are a bit different. First, they require many more tokens to buy. Some of these newer prizes can cost as many as 300 tokens, whereas the Exclusive Items max out at 15 tokens.

Another difference is that these new items were once available to Webkinz players in different ways. For example, these might have been prizes in a Marshmallow Collection Event or maybe a prize you could earn by playing with your Mazin’ Hamster. Ganz added these prizes to the Wish Factory to give everyone a chance to earn these cool items.

So far we’ve gone through Letter G. Now we’ll skip ahead to Letter M (there aren’t new prizes that start with H, I, J, K or L.)

First up is Millie’s Slide:

Millie’s Slide is a purple slide that costs 100 Wish Tokens.

Originally you could earn Millie’s Slide as a prize playing Webkinz Friends. Webkinz Friends, which I’ve mentioned before, was a Facebook game that involved building your own Webkinz town. Webkinz Friends doesn’t exist anymore, but some of the prizes pop up from time to time, such as this slide.

Millie’s Slide is interactive. Here’s a look at my pet playing on Millie’s Slide:

Next up is the Moolah Mountain Window:

The Moolah Mountain Window was a prize from Mazin’ Hamsters. Moolah Mountain was a place in the Mazin’ Hamsters world where your hamster could roll down the mountain and collect coins to buy prizes. The window is shaped like a hamster and looks out onto Moolah Mountain.

Here’s a look at the Moolah Mountain Window in a pet’s room:

As you can see, I have a few of these collected from the days when Mazin’ Hamsters was still available – almost all of the items in this room are Mazin’ Hamsters prizes:

The Moolah Mountain Window is available in the Wish Factory for 100 tokens.

Last for today is the Oak Tree Gazebo that costs 150 tokens.

Like Millie’s Slide, the Oak Tree Gazebo was also a prize from Webkinz Friends. Your pet can sit on the chair that’s inside the Gazebo:

That’s all for today. Next time we’ll look at Letters R and S!

If you want to earn these prizes faster, one way is to become a Deluxe member. Deluxe members now get to spin the Wheel of Wishes every day! Check out the Ganz eStore for more details on Deluxe memberships.

Rare Collector’s Pet Coming September 17th!

If you’re on the Ganz eStore mailing list, you might have heard about the rare collector’s pet that will be available on September 17th. Ganz has revealed that the pet is a Moonlight Wolf:

The Moonlight Wolf is being called “one of the rarest pets in Webkinz history” because it’s only available one day and in limited quantities.

We don’t know how much the Moonlight Wolf is going to cost yet, but we do know that you’ll have to use eStore points to buy it. Right now I have around 12,000 eStore points, and by the first of September I’ll have another 3,000 points added to my account because of my Deluxe Membership. I wonder if that will be enough points to buy this rare pet?

I think the Moonlight Wolf is really cute, and I like the idea of having a really rare pet. Do you think you might try to buy a Moonlight Wolf? What do you think about this new promotion? Tell me in the comments for a prize via Kinzpost!